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Joined May 2012
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Congrats to @astro_birch Chris Birch PhD '15, one of the 12 latest NASA Astronaut graduates!
After an academic career at U.C. Riverside and Caltech, Chris Birch became a track cyclist on the U.S. National Team. She was training for the 2020 Olympics when she was chosen as an astronaut candidate. go.nasa.gov/49WJKHj
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Congrats Marcos @Astros_Berrios '06 @MITMechE, one of the 12 latest NASA Astronaut grads!
Marcos @Astro_Berrios is from Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, and received his Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford. Berríos has logged over 1,400 hours of flight time in over 20 different aircraft. go.nasa.gov/49DEAAt
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Congrats @Astro_ChrisW Chris L. Williams PhD '12, one of 12 chosen as NASA's newest astronauts!
Born in New York City, @Astro_ChrisW Williams considers Potomac, Maryland, to be his hometown. A private pilot and Eagle Scout, Williams is a board-certified medical physicist and also holds a doctorate in physics from MIT. go.nasa.gov/49YJJmf
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Floating into 2024 together. Happy New Year, beavers! Image: Jenny Baek
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MIT AI experts Phillip John Isola PhD '15 and Tommi Sakari Jaakkola PhD '97 help break down the ins and outs of generative AI .bit.ly/3MFeLXm
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A new method allows scientists to label and image many different molecules at once within a living cell. Measuring those signals and how cells respond to them could shed important light on how cells work — including what happens as they age. mitsha.re/h5XO50Qcv2z
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Curiosity Unbounded, Episode 5 — In this episode, Joshua Bennett speaks with MIT President Sally Kornbluth about the power of words, the beauty of quiet things, and the value of learning for its own sake. mitsha.re/VnAs50PZeKw
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"One of the things that’s true about space is that it always surprises us." ~Lindy Elkins-Tanton ’87, SM ’87, PhD ’02, who is leading NASA’s @MissionToPsyche: bit.ly/46JFxp2
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Curiosity Unbounded, Episode 5 — In this episode, Joshua Bennett speaks with MIT President Sally Kornbluth about the power of words, the beauty of quiet things, and the value of learning for its own sake. mitsha.re/qpYb50PV5qz
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Can you count how many of these 20 films about math have an MIT connection? bit.ly/3PHFkLY
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Meet the 11 MITers on @techreview's 35 Innovators Under 35 List bit.ly/3RKu0BC
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Via MIT News: Moungi Bawendi, the Lester Wolfe Professor of @ChemistryMIT, has won a share of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for his work in the development of quantum dots. news.mit.edu/2023/mit-chemis…
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"I’m supposed to teach at 9am today and I have no idea what’s going to happen." Exclusive: listen to our phone call with new #NobelPrize laureate Moungi Bawendi right after he found out he had been awarded the 2023 chemistry prize.
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Today at #MITALC: MIT Professor @aleks_madry SM '09, PhD '11 discusses the risks and opportunities for generative artificial intelligence. bit.ly/3OhfBJB
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Good morning Boston! View from my MIT office.
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By immunizing the original image before anyone can access it, the PhotoGuard system disrupts the ability to successfully perform such edits. mitsha.re/XKkJ50PoXtW
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This installation woven from currency represents the 5,000 migrant households interviewed for the @CivicDataDesign Lab’s 2021 report on migration patterns. bit.ly/3K2DEuK
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Using AI to protect against AI image manipulation: “PhotoGuard,” developed by MIT CSAIL researchers, prevents unauthorized image manipulation, safeguarding authenticity in the era of advanced generative models. mitsha.re/XKkJ50PoXtW
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Spider webs are incredible biological structures, comprising thin but strong silk filament and arranged into complex hierarchical architectures with striking mechanical properties (e.g., lightweight but high strength, achieving diverse mechanical responses, multiple biological functions). Published in @PNASNews today, we are excited to share three graph-focused deep learning techniques (sparse and dense diffusion model, autoregressive transformer) to capture and model the complex design language of large 3D graph architectures—here exemplified for 3D spider webs. We use the methods to generate a diverse array of de novo bioinspired structural designs. Paper: W. Lu, N.A. Lee, M. Buehler, pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
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The Artificial Intelligence for National Security Leaders program educates leaders who may not have a technical background on the basics of AI, machine learning, and data science, and how they intersect with national security. mitsha.re/ixx650P7Mst
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